Simon Whitaker Email & Phone Number

Perth

Simon has led and/or played a leading role in a variety of assignments, predominantly involving technical and commercial asset evaluation. Some examples of recent assignments and achievements are: Project manager of numerous multi-disciplinary teams mainly involving evaluation of a variety of assets in Australasia, Asia, Africa and Europe to support acquisition or financing.Management of valuation teams for complex assets in Malaysia (deep and shallow water), Indonesia (onshore and offshore), and Philippines.Detailed analysis of costs and schedule for evaluation of deep water gas discoveries supplying gas to proposed LNG project in East Africa.Detailed planning of three well appraisal campaign in Vietnam involving input to drilling, completion, stimulation and testing phases of the operation.Evaluated multi reservoir, multi-platform, mature oil and gas development offshore Java, large gas development offshore East Java and various assets onshore Sumatra and Kalimantan to support financing by client.Peer review of projects at stage gates in development planning cycle.Capital, operating and abandonment costs forecasts and schedule review of onshore and offshore oil and gas fields, LNG and unconventional gas developments.

Perth, Australia

Responsible for a multi-disciplinary group of seven professionals including economics and planning, reservoir engineering, geophysics, completion design and installation, corrosion engineering and production chemistry during development of the Wandoo oil field. Key achievements included development of strategy for exploiting the potential of the Wandoo B production facility, development and implementation of Wandoo B startup plan and implementing a reservoir management plan for maximising production of Wandoo A early production system. Significant involvement with the novel Alliancing/Partnering methods used on the Wandoo project.

North Sea, Thailand, Egypt

Cooper Basin, Australia

Master’S Degree, Petroleum Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Engineering Geology